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New Zealanders with more than two Olympic medals

6 medals
Lisa Carrington (canoeing)
London 2012 Rio 2016 Tokyo 2020
canoe sprint K1 200 metres canoe sprint K1 200 metres canoe sprint K1 500 metres canoe sprint K1 200 metres canoe sprint K1 500 metres canoe sprint K2 500 metres
5 medals
Ian Ferguson (canoeing)
Los Angeles, 1984 Seoul, 1988
K1 500 metres K2 500 metres K4 1,000 metres K2 500 metres K2 1,000 metres
Paul MacDonald (canoeing)
Los Angeles, 1984 Seoul, 1988
K2 500 metres K4 1,000 metres K2 500 metres K2 1,000 metres K1 500 metres
Mark Todd (equestrian)
Los Angeles, 1984 Seoul, 1988 Sydney, 2000 London, 2012
3-day event individual 3-day event individual 3-day event team 3-day event individual 3-day event team
4 medals
Valerie Adams (shot put)
Beijing 2008 London 2012 Rio 2016 Tokyo 2020
Blyth Tait (equestrian)
Atlanta, 1996 Barcelona, 1992 Atlanta, 1996
3-day event individual 3-day event team 3-day event individual 3-day event team
3 medals
Hamish Bond (rowing)
London 2012 Rio 2016 Tokyo 2020
coxless pair coxless pair eights
Peter Snell (running)
Rome, 1960 Tokyo, 1964
800 metres 800 metres 1,500 metres
Danyon Loader (swimming)
Atlanta, 1996 Barcelona, 1992
200-metre freestyle 400-metre freestyle 200-metre butterfly
Simon Dickie (rowing)
Mexico, 1968 Munich, 1972 Montreal, 1976
Coxed four Eights Eights
Mahé Drysdale (rowing)
Beijing 2008 London 2012 Rio 2016
single sculls single sculls single sculls
Peter Burling (sailing)
London 2012 Rio 2016 Tokyo 2020
49er 49er 49er
Blair Tuke (sailing)
London 2012 Rio 2016 Tokyo 2020
49er 49er 49er
Barbara Kendall (sailing)
Barcelona, 1992 Atlanta, 1996 Sydney, 2000
Boardsailing Boardsailing Boardsailing
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (snowboarding)
PyeongChang 2018 Beijing 2022
big air slopestyle big air
Andrew Nicholson (equestrian)
Barcelona, 1992 Atlanta, 1996 London, 2012
3-day event team 3-day event team 3-day event team

This table lists the New Zealand athletes who had won more than two Olympic medals after the 2022 Beijing winter games..

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: Joseph Romanos, Our Olympic century. Wellington: Trio Books, 2008

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Joseph Romanos, Olympic and Commonwealth games – The early 21st century at the Olympics, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/table/38683/new-zealanders-with-more-than-two-olympic-medals (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Joseph Romanos, published 14 November 2012, updated 1 June 2023.